Person

John R. Watkins (Trigg County, Kentucky, farmer.)

b. 1828-06-01 d. 1904-09-08

Trigg County, Kentucky, farmer. Trigg County, Kentucky, native. Son of Hezekiah B. Watkins and Diana F. Wade Watkins. Farm laborer in Trigg County, Kentucky, in 1860. Household owned fifteen enslaved persons in Trigg County in 1860. Farmer in Trigg County in 1863.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Trigg County, p. 85.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Trigg County, p. 375A.

Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Trigg County, KY, June 1863, p. 50.

William Henry Perrin, Counties of Christian and Trigg: Historical and Biographical (Louisville, KY: F.A. Battey Publishing Co., 1884), 269.

"John R. Watkins (1829-1904)," Find A Grave, Memorial 50227162, accessed April 18, 2023, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/50227162.

Citation

Watkins, John R.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32200009 (November 12, 2026).

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